商品簡介
Perhaps in response to all the common assumptions that the British empire has all but disappeared, the contributors of these 11 articles argue that at the emotional and pragmatic levels empire still exists in the lives and understanding of millions of people in post-colonial cultures. Focusing on the geography of empire, they describe the importance of place and memory in the dislocation of nineteenth-century Irishness and Irish places in its sites of resistance, in the landed estates, and in its gender identities in household spaces in townships, and of Australia's identity in its wheatlands and its Presbyterian discourse, They find trans-location in environment-identity in Australia, in soldier settlement in New Zealand, and regulation of prostitution in India and Hong Long. Finally, they describe how displacement works in a post-colonial level when one is the person being displaced. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dr Lindsay Proudfoot is Reader in Geography at the School of Geography within Queen's University Belfast, UK. Professor Michael Roche is based at the School of People, Environment and Planning, at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
